GALACTIC HOA Episode Two: The Boy Who Cried Supernova a short cosmic comedy There is, in every neighborhood, one resident who has been about to do something dramatic for so long that nobody quite believes it anymore. In the Local Group, that resident was Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse was not, strictly speaking, a member of the Local Group HOA. Betelgeuse was a single red supergiant star sitting in the Milky Way's own shoulder, a relatively short eight hundred or so light-years away

GALACTIC HOA Episode One: Greg Lets One Go a short cosmic comedy The Local Group is a quiet neighborhood, as these things go. A few dozen galaxies, give or take, drifting in loose formation across a few million light-years of nothing in particular. Nobody's in a hurry. Nobody needs to be. When your neighbors are measured in millions of light-years away and your conversations take place over geological epochs, you learn to let things happen at their own pace. Greg Galaxy had n